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[Albion] Going to be pretty empty for the Villa game



hans kraay fan club

The voice of reason.
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Mar 16, 2005
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It’s a question of attitude as much as anything and refers to a small number of people on this board.

I’ve missed my quota due to having to work. Luckily my late meeting today got cancelled so I’ll be there tonight and I’m looking forward to it. And there are other perfectly good reasons for missing such as health, holiday or family issues. But when people on here post that they’re not going because it’s Villa and the travel might take a while that’s absolutely flaky.
That’s a very easy attitude to take if you live a few miles from the Amex.
 




Westdene Seagull

aka Cap'n Carl Firecrotch
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Oct 27, 2003
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The arse end of Hangleton
Yep. I may have to work late tomorrow. It's going to depend on the outcome of a meeting in the States that finishes about 9pm tonight. If I do have to work I'll then be listing my ticket with 3000 others and I'll have missed the 'naughty boy' cut off (which is arbitrary and ridiculous anyway).

Could instead give the ticket to one of the lad's mates and have two vocal youngsters and a potential new regular.

Oh well.
screenshot the QR code for your ticket and email it to lad's mate - job done.
 


bhafc99

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Oct 14, 2003
7,708
Dubai
Couldn't agree more! First time I'm able to go this season due to having young children. I'm travelling over from Bexhill which for an evening game may as well be the arse end of nowhere. It'll be a midnight arrival home and work the next day but I don't care. Support the team no matter what
Having grown up in Little Common, I can confirm that Bexhill is ALWAYS the arse end of nowhere.
 




Guinness Boy

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Jul 23, 2003
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Up and Coming Sunny Portslade
That’s a very easy attitude to take if you live a few miles from the Amex.
I see those sorts of posts from people who live a lot closer to the Amex than you. Bloke called Mile Oak who says he's not going to another mid week game for example because of the trains (I bet he is and it's just a passive / aggressive social media post that might somehow make Paul Barber wave a magic wand and make the trains 8 carriages). And seemingly 4000 others. Do they all live as far away as you?
 
















PascalGroß Tips

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Jan 29, 2024
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I have a season ticket with Seagull Travel - travelling from Shoreham. Our route usually takes 65 minutes on average - including 6 pickups - but took 90 minutes for the Forest game. They posted yesterday to say they are keeping pickup times the same. I get this because if they emailed everyone to say pickups were going to be 15 minutes (or whatever) earlier to allow for delays, loads of people wouldn't see the email and would turn up at their pickup point at the usual time.

So ... with the weather being sunny today - albeit with a 'fresh breeze' ... I think I'm going to walk from Shoreham. It's about 10 miles and should take me about 2 hours 45 minutes ish. I'll then just need to find where my ST bus is parked after the game - as I'm not mad enough to walk back home :oops:

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Bozza

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Jul 4, 2003
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Back in Sussex
It's going to be like that infamous Bournemouth points-harvesting game with more empty seats than, errrrm, sat-on seats.

Looking at the seat map, I am currently going to have a lot of space to spread out in WSU row A.
 


Zeberdi

“Vorsprung durch Technik”
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Oct 20, 2022
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That’s a very easy attitude to take if you live a few miles from the Amex.
My attitude is the same as GB‘s (and I live further away than you 😉).

I don’t make all the home games because I am simply not well enough to make a 400 mile round trip on public transport each fortnight (today will be the second time in 5 days) - nor do my finances allow me to spend the £200 plus it costs me on travel and hotel (plus the often £50+ for a match ticket) but I don’t let anticipated delays on trains, road works, bad weather or who we are playing deter me from going which is the excuses I see from time to time from a few posters on this board. When they have a BN postcode and use these types of excuses, that‘s fair weather support imo.
 




Zeberdi

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Oct 20, 2022
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I’m driving down from Guildford with a space in the Uni car park. How bad is the A27 going to be? ‘I wouldn’t bother’ bad?

It will be a ‘mare but just leave earlier to allow the extra time.
 


Oh_aye

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Jul 8, 2022
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I’m driving down from Guildford with a space in the Uni car park. How bad is the A27 going to be? ‘I wouldn’t bother’ bad?
My wife does the journey from work and had about an extra 25-30 mins om her journey yesterday. That's normal rush hour without football traffic so give yourself plenty of extra time. I think a lot of people will look for alternative options so it may not be that bad.
 




Oh_aye

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Jul 8, 2022
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I have a season ticket with Seagull Travel - travelling from Shoreham. Our route usually takes 65 minutes on average - including 6 pickups - but took 90 minutes for the Forest game. They posted yesterday to say they are keeping pickup times the same. I get this because if they emailed everyone to say pickups were going to be 15 minutes (or whatever) earlier to allow for delays, loads of people wouldn't see the email and would turn up at their pickup point at the usual time.

So ... with the weather being sunny today - albeit with a 'fresh breeze' ... I think I'm going to walk from Shoreham. It's about 10 miles and should take me about 2 hours 45 minutes ish. I'll then just need to find where my ST bus is parked after the game - as I'm not mad enough to walk back home :oops:

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If you can, that's a lovely walk over the downs. Along the river to bramber and the up past the Dyke. End up in the Swan for refreshments!
 




Brian Munich

teH lulZ
Jul 7, 2008
857
This is the problem isn’t it. We’re now forced to put the ticket on the exchange or risk the wrath of a telling off from the club.

Now, I know the club don’t want the risk of unknown people in the stadium - god knows how we used to manage society in the past - but we need to find an easier way to just pass tickets to friends without having to go through some admin.
I’d argue that a couple of clicks on the club website then forwarding an email to someone is about as easy as it’s going to get, and far easier than physically handing over a season ticket card (and having to retrieve it after).
 


Han Solo

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May 25, 2024
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You are Graham Potter and I claim my £10
That is a wild guess.

Not the Potter thing of course,, thats reasonable, but me owning £10...
 


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